Terry Allen artwork on display at Texas Tech University System office – LubbockOnline.com

Sarah Self-Walbrick

ThursdayJan30,2020at5:42PM

A collection of sketches that offer insight into artist Terry Allens creative process was recently installed in the first and second-floor art gallery in the Texas Tech University System Administration building.

"The Artwork of Terry Allen" will be on display to the public through Aug. 12 at 1508 Knoxville Ave.

The collection hangs in lobby areas that can be accessed during normal business hours.

The artwork was chosen from the larger Allen Collection, housed at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. The living collection of Terry and Jo Harvey Allens work includes over 200 workbooks, photographs, correspondence, scripts and audio-visual material produced by the couple in their decades of making art. The collection was acquired last year and the Allens will add to it as they continue to make art.

The displayed art includes conceptual sketches of some of Allens sculpture work that can be found throughout the country. The workbook designs show not just the sculpture, but notes about the meaning behind the artwork.

In a sketch for the project Notre Denver - two cast bronze gargoyles sitting in handheld suitcases that can be found in a baggage claim area at Denver International Airport - Allen works through specifics of one of the pieces, but also ponders that "a cathedral is kind of a baggage claim (in a higher sense of course)."

Katelin Dixon, special projects curator at the Southwest Collection, said the selections in this gallery are just a small sample of what the larger collection shows about art concept development.

Allen, who grew up in Lubbock, is a singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist. Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band released an album, "Just Like Moby Dick," in January.

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